Objective - Why Complex cognitive activities are not stored in the brain memory .
All road users are performing complex cognitive task unconsciously without storing it into their brain memory the way they are doing driving task which is stored in their brain memory. When we do conscious tasks unconsciously without storing them in the brain's memory, it increases the cognitive load and the total duration of a cognitive cycle. Consequently, we manage cognitive situations accidentally and believe we manage them intelligently.
We should master to our minds rather than a slave to our minds in sustainable road safety. We learn vehicle control and perform vehicle driving activities unconsciously yet intelligently.
We have not learned complex cognitive task and perform complex cognitive task unconsciously and believe we manage it intelligently. We will be controlled by the cognitive situations if do not learn cognitive situation management. We will be controlled by the cognitive world if we do not learn cognitive control and do not perform cognitive control. Every day around 500 road users are controlled by cognitive situations and become victims of accidental suicide because they have not learned cognitive situation management, and the numbers are increasing.
Define yourself otherwise you will be defined by others. Are you an active master or a passive slave to your mind on the roads?
We all are slaves to our minds because our minds drags us into the same pit more often to enjoy the taste of the senses as well as engages us in the process of thinking about past memories and future worries again and again and we are unknowingly getting into a self-deception trap of accidental suicide. It is crucial to be masters of our minds over slaves of our minds on the road because mind slavery kills us on the road.
The mind and water have similar properties; water flows down slopes for easier transport, whereas water needs pressure and force to be taken to heights. The mind drifts in the process of thinking about past memories and future worries which is easier task, whereas mind needs pressure and force to be taken to heights. We need special force to engage mind in the present for a long period of time, when on roads.
When our cognitive resources are preoccupied with an unconscious task, we may be more likely to perform another action impulsively and unconsciously due to increased cognitive load and a reduced capacity for conscious control. This often happens when attention is divided, making it harder to inhibit or control immediate impulses that are triggered by external or internal stimuli. We also try to perform complex cognitive task unconsciously and manage cognitive situation accidentally which we believe we manage intelligently.
Neuroscience of complex cognitive task CCT - we perform unconsciously:
"Following practice many things including vehicle driving task we do unconsciously, we perform complex cognitive tasks less consciously that we should do preconsciously, and manage cognitive situations accidently rather than intelligently and believe we manage them intelligently". Practice does not make us perfect, but perfect practice makes us perfect. We need to perform cognitive stimulation activities to strengthen cognitive neurons.
Complex cognitive tasks where in attention, memory, make decision, plan actions and timing are crucial, we should perform such task preconsciously, proactively and intelligently. If we perform complex cognitive tasks unconsciously, reactively and accidentally, then the result will be accidentally positive., and we believe it is intelligently positive. "Break your illusion before it breaks you".
The mind drifts in past memories and future worries and assumptions which is an easy task for the mind and complex cognitive tasks we can store in the memory of our brain to make the brain more active and also to make it easier for the mind to drift into the memories and assumptions of complex cognitive tasks. We need to store right assumptions in the brain memory. Then complex cognitive tasks can also be performed unconsciously because the brain is more active.
We have to store complex cognitive task in the brain so as to activate its autopilot functionality for that particular complex cognitive task to make it more active when the mind is absent. There are 5 main reasons why cognitive activities are not stored in the brain memory of all road users and are mentioned below.
1. Lack of knowledge about cognitive activities - all road users are not aware of the cognitive activities.
2. Lack of expert-guided learning - expert guided learning is efficient memory and mind guided learning is inefficient memory.
3. Lack of repetition - road users are facing different and new new situation everyday on roads, not the same situations repeated.
4. Lack of mind involvement - mind involvement is very important to store information in the brain memory as well as the mind memory (mental process).
5. Lack of cognitive self-talk - All road users are doing general self-talk while on roads to sort through their thoughts, make decisions, and follow the mind, which is engaged in normal function.
When we store information in the brain for cognitive activities and worries for the future (emotion of fear - if we fail to handle the developing hazards well on time), we are setting a same kind of engagement for the mind to which it is designed and which is its normal function. Mind keeps thinking about the past memories and future worries. Mind engages in the task which is having risk to life such as learning to drive, mind also involves in the criminal activity because of the risk of getting caught by the police. Road users have removed the fear factor after learning the vehicle driving which we need to bring back.
A child is very inquisitive and always try to know about everything and storing memories by paying attention to them. In the absence of memories, we will continue to think and to know about the things that we come across. In the past, we have seen and paid attention to what was useful and harmful and learned lessons and set guidelines for the future with the information we have gathered. We are storing memories continuously every day, and our minds keep thinking about these past memories and our worries for the future, because our mind is comfortable in this thinking process, it doesn’t not reside in the present moment and we consciously engage it in the present moment.
The results of the tasks and projects we intend to begin in the future which can be in next minute, hour, day, month or year worry us because of the fear of failure or fear of associated risk. People are not aware of the fact that the present moment lasts only about 2 to 2.5 seconds, as it is the length of time our breath stays in our bodies, and once we release our breath, it becomes our past, and the breath
The average reaction time for our brain is 300 milliseconds, when we have identified a hazard and observing it, and sending signal to brain to take the required action. if our mind is away from the current task and comes back to the cirrent task and scans the surroundings in all the 10 directions and identify the Hazard and sends the signal to the brain to take the required action. Scanning the surroundings in all the 10 directions should be done in a second, and any delay of a second will lead to road crash.
So if the face eye or the mind is just one second late in detecting a developing hazard, then the total reaction time is 1.3 seconds, and the developing hazard becomes actual hazard in one second, which is called the collision time.
This decline in attention span significantly increases the likelihood of crashes. Effective road safety relies heavily on cognitive attention, and daily travel exposes us to considerable risks. It is very important to work on what is lacking. we are yet to take is our future.
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